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Texts -- Mark 10:40-52 (NET)

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10:40 but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give . It is for those for whom it has been prepared .” 10:41 Now when the other ten heard this, they became angry with James and John . 10:42 Jesus called them and said to them , “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them , and those in high positions use their authority over them . 10:43 But it is not this way among you . Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant , 10:44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all . 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve , and to give his life as a ransom for many .”
Healing Blind Bartimaeus
10:46 They came to Jericho . As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho , Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus , a blind beggar , beggar , was sitting by the road . 10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene , he began to shout , “Jesus , Son of David , have mercy on me !” 10:48 Many scolded him to get him to be quiet , but he shouted all the more , “Son of David , have mercy on me !” 10:49 Jesus stopped and said , “Call him .” So they called the blind man and said to him , “Have courage ! Get up ! He is calling you .” 10:50 He threw off his cloak , jumped up , and came to Jesus . 10:51 Then Jesus said to him , “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied , “Rabbi , let me see again.” 10:52 Jesus said to him , “Go , your faith has healed you .” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the road .

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  • Andaikan Yesus, Kau Bukan Milikku [KJ.300]
  • Kita, Anak Adam [KJ.156]
  • Kudengar BerkatMu Turun [KJ.235] ( Even Me / Lord, I Hear of Showers of Blessmg )
  • Mampirlah, Dengar Doaku [KJ.26] ( Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior )
  • Pujilah Tuhan, Muliakan Dia [KJ.315]
  • Tuhan, Kasihani [KJ.42]
  • Tuhan, Kasihani Kami [KJ.43]
  • Tuhan, Kasihanilah [KJ.44]
  • Yesus, Tuhan, Engkaulah Mesias [KJ.141]
  • [Mar 10:44] Servant Of All, To Toil For Man
  • [Mar 10:45] I Gave My Life For Thee
  • [Mar 10:45] I Saw One Hanging On A Tree
  • [Mar 10:45] Jesus Came Down My Ransom To Be
  • [Mar 10:45] Savior, Who Thy Life Didst Give
  • [Mar 10:47] Jesus Of Nazareth Passeth By
  • [Mar 10:48] Blind Bartimeus
  • [Mar 10:49] All Those That Pass By
  • [Mar 10:49] As A Volunteer
  • [Mar 10:49] Calling Now
  • [Mar 10:49] Calling Thee
  • [Mar 10:49] Forward, Men And Brothers!
  • [Mar 10:49] Hark! He Is Calling
  • [Mar 10:49] Jesus Is Calling
  • [Mar 10:49] Lo, A Loving Friend Is Waiting
  • [Mar 10:49] Oh! Come To The Merciful Savior
  • [Mar 10:49] Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling

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General; What if God Had an Answering Machine?; 1 John 2:15; A Servant’s Heart; Redemption Means…; Jesus’ Incarnation; Philippians 2:2-11

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

  • The burnt offering (in Greek, holokautoma, from which we get the word "holocaust") expressed the offerer's complete consecration to Yahweh (cf. Matt. 22:37; Rom. 12:1-2). However it also made atonement for the offerer. Some r...
  • Coveting means inordinately desiring to possess what belongs to another person. This commandment deals with motivation rather than deed, with attitude rather than action. It gets at the spirit that often leads to the sins for...
  • This pericope shows that the disciples did not understand what Jesus had said (cf. Luke 18:34)."Despite Jesus' repeated predictions of his passion, two disciples and their mother are still thinking about privilege, status, an...
  • Even on the way to give His life a ransom for many Jesus continued to serve, as this pericope shows. Rather than delivering Himself from the fate He foresaw, He mercifully and compassionately delivered others from their affli...
  • These characteristics help us understand Mark's purpose for writing, which he did not state directly. Mark's purpose was not just to give his readers a biographical or historical account of Jesus' life. He had a more practica...
  • Matthew presents Jesus in the purple and gold of royalty. Mark portrays Him in the brown and green of a servant who has come to do His Father's will.The message of the book is similar to Matthew's message. A concise statement...
  • I. Introduction 1:1-13A. The title of the book 1:1B. Jesus' preparation for ministry 1:2-131. The ministry of John the Baptist 1:2-82. The baptism of Jesus 1:9-113. The temptation of Jesus 1:12-13II. The Servant's early Galil...
  • The writer pointed out that the ministry of Jesus' forerunner fulfilled prophecy. It made a significant impact on those whom John contacted. Then Mark recorded the essence of John's message.1:2-3 Mark began with a quotation f...
  • Mark next recorded two events that immediately preceded the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, His baptism and His temptation. The first of these events signaled His appearing as Messiah and His induction into that office. ...
  • Mark omitted Jesus' year of early Judean ministry (John 1:15-4:42), as did the other Synoptic evangelists. He began his account of Jesus' ministry of service in Galilee, northern Israel (1:14-6:6a). Because of increasing oppo...
  • 1:21 Capernaum became Jesus' base of ministry in Galilee (cf. Luke 4:16-31). It stood on the Sea of Galilee's northwest shore and was the hub of the most populous district in Galilee. Archaeologists have done extensive restor...
  • 2:1-2 These two verses are an introduction to what follows. Mark frequently used summaries such as this one (cf. 1:14-15, 39; 2:13; 3:7-12, 23; 4:1, 33-34; 8:21-26, 31; 9:31; 10:1; 12:1). They are a mark of his literary style...
  • The call of Levi as one of Jesus' disciples was the setting for the second instance of opposition from the religious leaders that Mark recorded in this section.2:13 "Again"(Gr. palin) identifies this incident as a different o...
  • This pericope introduces Jesus' continuing ministry in Galilee following the religious leaders' decision to kill Him (cf. 1:14-15; 2:13). It provides much more detail than the parallel account in Matthew.3:7-8 The sea to whic...
  • This is one of the sections of Mark's Gospel that has a chiastic structure (cf. 3:22-30; 6:14-29; 11:15-19).A The appeal of Jairus for his daughter 5:21-24B The healing of the woman with the hemorrhage 5:25-34A' The raising o...
  • Jesus increased His ministry to Gentiles as He experienced increasing rejection from the Jews. This third withdrawal from Galilee took Jesus outside Palestine for the first time. Mark also recorded Jesus doing more things out...
  • Having comprehended Jesus' true identity the disciples next turned south with Jesus and headed from Caesarea Philippi toward Jerusalem. This section of the Gospel traces that journey and stresses Jesus' preparation of His dis...
  • Jesus now proceeded to explain to His disciples that suffering would not only be His destiny but theirs too.8:34 Jesus addressed the crowds as well as the disciples because the requirements are the same for anyone who contemp...
  • 10:32 Jesus and His disciples were travelling to Jerusalem from somewhere in Perea or Judea. They had not yet passed through Jericho (vv. 46-52). Jesus' position in front of them, in typical rabbinic fashion, suggests His det...
  • This pericope parallels 9:30-37. Both sections deal with true greatness, and both follow predictions of Jesus' passion. This second incident shows the disciples' lack of spiritual perception and their selfishness even more th...
  • Mark probably included this incident in his Gospel because it illustrates how Jesus would open the spiritual eyes of His disciples that were still shut (cf. 8:22-26). This is the last healing miracle that Mark recorded."This ...
  • This incident contrasts the spiritual poverty and physical prosperity of the scribes with the physical poverty and spiritual prosperity of the widow. It also contrasts the greed of the scribes with the generosity of the widow...
  • Several themes peak in this section. Here we have the clearest evidence that Jesus was the Messiah and the Son of God (cf. 1:1; 8:29). Here, too, Jesus' conflict with the religious leaders, His foes, came to a head (cf. 3:1, ...
  • Matthew and Mark's accounts of this event are similar, but Paul's is more like Luke's.14:22 The bread Jesus ate would have been the unleavened bread that the Jews used in the Passover meal. The blessing Jesus pronounced was a...
  • Mark's account of Jesus' death included five climactic events: the darkness, two of Jesus' cries, the tearing of the temple veil, and the Roman centurion's confession. All of these events happened during the last three of the...
  • Luke's primary purpose for including this incident in his narrative seems to have been to show that God, through Jesus, can give insight to those who humbly call on Him for mercy. Here was another humble outcast similar to th...
  • Following Jesus' announcement of His self-sacrifice and the announcement of His betrayal, the disciples' argument over who of them was the greatest appears thoroughly inappropriate (cf. Matt. 20:17-28; Mark 10:32-45). Jesus u...
  • This chapter continues the theme of Jesus as the Light of the World (8:12; 9:5). When the Light shone, some received spiritual sight, as this blind man received physical and spiritual sight. However the Light blinded others (...
  • 16:25 "These things I have spoken unto you"(NASB) indicates another transition in the discourse (cf. 14:25; 16:1, 4, 33; 17:1). Jesus acknowledged that He had not been giving direct answers to His disciples' questions. He had...
  • "In his former address Peter had testified to the power and presence of the Spirit of God at work in a new way in the lives of men through Jesus. Now he proclaims the power and authority of the name of Jesus by which his disc...
  • Paul's final argument in support of justification by faith was a development of his previous emphasis on the solidarity that the saved experience with their Savior (5:1-2, 9-10). In this section (5:12-21) he expanded that ide...
  • This section concludes Paul's instructions concerning the importance of accepting one another as Christians that he began in 14:1. In this section the apostle charged both the strong and the weak.15:7 "Accept"repeats Paul's o...
  • This section concludes Paul's entire teaching on marriage in this chapter. However it contains problems related to the meaning of "virgin"as is clear from the three different interpretations in the NASB, the NIV, and the NEB....
  • The extent to which the apostle was willing to lay aside his rights comes out in this pericope. Since Paul chose not to receive pay for his ministry in Corinth, he was free from the restrictions that patronage might impose. T...
  • 1:7 The "Him"in view is the beloved Son (v. 6).Redemption (Gr. apolytrosin) means release from slavery (cf. v. 14; 4:30; Luke 21:28; Rom. 3:24; 8:23; 1 Cor. 1:30; Col. 1:14; Heb. 9:15; 11:35). It involves buying back and sett...
  • "After centuries of Christian teaching, we scarcely appreciate the revolutionary nature of Paul's views on family life set forth in this passage. Among the Jews of his day, as also among the Romans and the Greeks, women were ...
  • As he had done previously (e.g., 5:1-2) Paul urged the adoption of proper attitudes toward others that would normally make it easier to produce proper actions. Christian slaves were to "regard"their masters as worthy of all h...
  • Paul began his instructions with these directions to emphasize the priority of setting qualified leaders over the affairs of the local churches (cf. Acts 6:3).1:5 Titus, like Timothy, served as the agent of an apostle with ap...
  • The writer now focused on the issue of sacrifice."The argument moves a stage further as the author turns specifically to what Christ has done. The sacrifices of the old covenant were ineffectual. But in strong contrast Christ...
  • The hypothetical84or familiar85situation James constructed in verses 2 and 3 presents what some have called the case of the nearsighted usher.2:2-3 "Assembly"is literally "synagogue."In the early history of the church Jewish ...
  • Peter continued the exposition of Leviticus 19 that he began in verse 16.48"Peter's point is that if he and his readers have a special relationship to God by virtue of their calling and their new birth, then it is all the mor...
  • "Younger men"is literally "younger ones"and includes females as well as males.190Nevertheless younger men were probably in Peter's mind since the contrast is with older men in verses 1-4."In the ancient world the division of ...
  • In the context we note that God addressed well-known verse 20 to Christians."The first thing which a person mustget fixed in his mind when studying the message to the Church in Laodicea is the fact that the Spirit of God is a...
  • 9:13 Someone near the four horns (symbolic of power) of the golden altar in heaven, probably the angel identified with it in 8:3, gave a command after the sixth angel blew the sixth trumpet (cf. 8:2, 6). Instead of seeing som...

Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)

  • Mark 10-16
  • And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto Him, saying, Master, we would that Thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. 36. And He said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? 37. They said unto ...
  • Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.' Mark 10:46.THE narrative of this miracle is contained in all the Synoptical Gospels, but the accounts differ in two respects--as to the number of men res...
  • And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.'--Mark 10:50.MARK'S vivid picture--long wail of the man, crowd silencing him, but wheeling round when Christ calls him--and the quick energy of the beggar, flinging a...
  • What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?--Mark 10:51.What wilt Thou have me to do? '--Acts 10:6.CHRIST asks the first question of a petitioner, and the answer is a prayer for sight. Saul asks the second question of Jesus, a...
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